My closest friend has just asked me to write her a reference to a Nanny agency as a relief person. We have been friends since we were in high school. I felt really certain that the only answer I could give her was a no. For a while I have been telling her to deal with her stress issues. In all the appropriate ways possible, take a yoga class etc. She has turned a deaf ear to everything. A few weeks ago she stayed at at my house and set my electric kettle on the top of the stove and turned it on, not a good thing to do. She also set her Mother's oven mitts on the ring of her stove which was on. About a week ago we took another friend to lunch for her birthday. I talked to my friend as she needs to get a job about taking a class to help her get work. Her remark to me was that she was too old to study. She has never been in Guiding, or taken first aid courses or an after school babysitting course. She likes children and has baby sat her nieces. At the moment she is helping her aged parents and under considerable stress as her Father is sick. I left a long message on her answering machine to explain why I didn't feel comfortable giving her a reference. My offspring summed it up best if you are too old to read a book/study then you are too old to babysit children. My friends motive is to make money and with the stress in her life, add to the stress of being in a stranger's house with a stranger's child. I think I will pass on that one.
I have found the best mystery series actually it was my partner the library sleuth. He found a new series set in Rome abut a Venetian detective called Aurelio Zen. It is too good. The setting, the stories, clever dialogue and the clothing and characters. It reminds me of the movie Italian Job combined with Two for the Road that kind of cool, low key, a bit flashy. I was delighted with each of the three shows made. Out of curiosity I looked up the main actor, Rufus Sewell. Middle age been in lots of good shows. There was an interview on one of the day shows. The BBC, new head cancelled it after three shows. No that can't be true. I just hope they get a new network to pick it up. That was one of the dumbest things a BBC producer has ever done. Did they turn down the Beatles also?
I have just had a week of sleepless nights two but it felt like more. I have thought it might be due to being on the computer late at night with my habit of reading newspapers. I talked to my friend about it as she has the same experiences. It must also be a part of the female aging process. I live in fear of one of these nights. having a snoring husband doesn't help and now with one less bedroom in the house that isn't good either. At least spring is almost here and I can get out for a walk to help. I will also have to do the inevitable spring clean!
Our gas prices have gone up I know they have gone up in Europe also. Our car which I is a wonderful although now aged mechanical beast is going through gas at an alarming rate. My car is named Bonnie because she is a Bonneville, a Pontiac the largest of the Pontiac that are now not being made. She is a great car very safe, but needs serious work on her. I need to go and get a new vehicle of a smaller variety like a Pontiac Wave or something of that ilk. One so my partner can have a car with better mileage and we can either keep Bonnie as a spare to go grocery shopping, or for my partner to drive to work and let her sit all day in the parking lot. Sometimes you have to face reality and give the older appreciated things in your life a semi retirement also.
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